A Simple Definition For Poetry
A Simple Definition For Poetry by Terry Heick As an English teacher, my students would ask me 'what a poem is' and before I could get two sentences in their ...
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Don’t Teach Kids How To Read, Teach Them Why
Don't Teach Kids How To Read, Teach Them Why by Terry Heick Preface: I'm writing under the assumption that the 'child' in question has access to some form of mobile ...
21st Century Literacy: A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology
A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology by Terry Heick Why do we need a framework? Literacy instruction has done a relatively poor job of keeping up with ...
Teaching Digital Students Non-Digital Things
Teaching Digital Students Non-Digital Things by Terry Heick Like thinking, reading in the 21st century is different than in centuries past, endlessly linked in an increasingly visible web of physical ...
Nas Breaks Down Hip-Hop Classic ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’ With Harvard Poetry Professor
Nas Breaks Down Hip-Hop Classic 'It Ain't Hard To Tell' With Harvard Poetry Professor by Terry Heick In April of 1994, Queens artist Nas released what would become one of ...
How My Students Organize Their Language Arts Binder
How My Students Organize Their Language Arts Binder by Terry Heick For many humanities teachers, how you have students organize their class binders--or if you have them keep one at ...
‘The Objective’ As Read By Wendell Berry
"Even while I dreamed I prayed that what I saw was only fear and no foretelling, for I saw the last known landscape destroyed for the sake of the objective--the ...
How I Use Data To Motivate Students To Become Better Readers
How I Use Data To Motivate Students To Become Better Readers contributed by Kelley Spencer Adcock I have a lot in common with my struggling readers. I don't have trouble reading, ...
Owl Eyes: 12 Ways To Use Digital Text Annotation
Owl Eyes: 12 Ways To Use Digital Text Annotation by TeachThought Staff Owl Eyes asked us to let us know about their (free) digital text annotation tool they created for ...
Kurt Vonnegut Describes The Shape Of A Story
Kurt Vonnegut Describes The Shape Of A Story by Terry Heick The 'narrative arc' is a way of describing the traditional rising and falling of action in a story. Most ...
What To Read Next: 100 Timeless Books, Poems, And Essays
What To Read Next: 100 Timeless Books, Poems, And Essays by Terry Heick This collection was put together by a good friend of mine, Nicholas Rudolph, who I pushed and pushed ...
12 Literary Road Trips In A Single Map
Extraordinary! 12 Literary Road Trips In A Single Map by TeachThought Staff Richard Kreitner and Steven Melendez over at atlasobscura recently shared a map you might want to take a look at. ...
Redefining What It Means To Be Human In The Absence Of The Humanities
We increasingly need the humanities because technology requires us to know what information we need and the kinds of questions we should ask.
The Difference Between An Initialism And An Acronym
The Difference Between An Initialism And An Acronym Initialisms and an acronyms are often confused, not so much that one is mistaken for another, but rather that initialisms aren't usually ...
24 Entertaining Short Stories For Middle School
24 Entertaining Short Stories For Middle School Reading in middle school is tricky, and it's not simply a matter of decoding and fluency. Middle school students are an interesting bunch, with ...
42 Idiom Examples And Explanations
42 Idiom Examples And Explanations Oxford Dictionaries offers the definition of an idiom as "a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of ...
The Best Thing To Ever Happen To Google Drive For Teachers
The Best Thing To Ever Happen To Google Drive For Teachers First came cloud-based word processing in the form of Google Docs. With cloud-based word processing in education, teachers could ...
The Difference Between Inference & Prediction
The Difference Between Inference & Prediction by TeachThought Staff Reading comprehension is a core tenet of schooling. The new Common Core Standards in the United States pace an increasing emphasis ...
